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Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720. Miscellany poems, on several occasions: Written by the Right Honble Anne, Countess of Winchilsea. London: printed for J. B. and sold by Benj. Tooke, William Taylor, and James Round, 1713, pp. 174-176. [8],390p. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T94539; Foxon pp. 274-5; OTA K076314.000) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Buxton 100].)

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Other works by Anne Finch (née Kingsmill), countess of Winchilsea

• ADAM Pos'd. ()
• ALCIDOR. ()
• All is Vanity. ()
• The ATHEIST and the ACORN. ()
• The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles. ()
• The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg. A FABLE. ()
• The CAUTIOUS LOVERS. ()
• The CHANGE. ()
• The Critick and the Writer of FABLE ()
• Cupid and Folly. Imitated from the FRENCH. ()
• The Decision of Fortune. A FABLE. ()
• Democritus and his Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine. ()
• A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat, made after the famous Cartons of Raphael; in which, Elymas the Sorcerer is miraculously struck Blind by St. Paul before Sergius Paulus, the Proconsul of Asia. Inscribed to the Honble HENRY THYNNE, under the Name of THEANOR. ()
• The DOG and his MASTER. ()
• The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat. ()
• Enquiry after Peace. A Fragment. ()
• An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, returning Money she had lent him at Bassette, upon the first Day of their Acquaintance. Translated with Liberty from the French. ()
• An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion in his Sickness. ()
• The EQUIPAGE. Written Originally in FRENCH by L'Abbé Reigner. ()
• The EXECUTOR. ()
• Fanscomb Barn. In Imitation of MILTON. ()
• The following Lines occasion'd by the Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert. ()
• For the Better. Imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange. ()
• Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells. ()
• FRAGMENT. ()
• Friendship between EPHELIA and ARDELIA. ()
• GLASS. ()
• The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat carrying to a FAIR. ()
• HOPE. ()
• The House of Socrates. ()
• The HYMN. ()
• JEALOUSY. A SONG. ()
• Jupiter and the Farmer. ()
• The King and the Shepherd. Imitated from the French. ()
• La Passion Vaincue. Done into English with Liberty. ()
• A LETTER to the same Person. ()
• LIFE's Progress. ()
• The LORD and the BRAMBLE ()
• Love, Death, and Reputation. ()
• The LYON and the GNAT. ()
• The MAN and his HORSE. ()
• The Man bitten by Fleas. ()
• Man's Injustice towards Providence. ()
• MERCURY and the ELEPHANT. A Prefatory FABLE. ()
• A Miller, his Son, and their Ass. A FABLE Translated from Monsieur de la Fontaine. ()
• Moral SONG. ()
• THE Mussulman's Dream OF THE VIZIER and DERVIS. ()
• A Nocturnal Reverie. ()
• On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne, younger Son to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Weymouth. ()
• The Owl Describing her Young Ones. ()
• Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia, a Tragedy, written in French by Monsieur Racine. ()
• A Pastoral DIALOGUE between Two Shepherdesses. ()
• The Petition for an Absolute Retreat. Inscribed to the Right Honble CATHARINE Countess of THANET, mention'd in the Poem under the Name of ARMINDA. ()
• The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue. ()
• The PHOENIX. A SONG. ()
• A Pindarick Poem Upon the Hurricane in November 1703, referring to this Text in Psalm 148. ver. 8. Winds and Storms fulfilling his Word. ()
• A POEM for the Birth-day of the Right Honble the Lady CATHARINE TUFTON. Occasion'd by sight of some Verses upon that Subject for the preceding Year, compos'd by no Eminent Hand. ()
• The Poor Man's Lamb: OR, Nathan's Parable to David after the Murder of Uriah, and his Marriage with Bathsheba. Turn'd into Verse and Paraphras'd. ()
• The Prevalence of Custom. ()
• PSALM the 137th, Paraphras'd to the 7th Verse. ()
• REFORMATION. ()
• The Shepherd and the Calm. ()
• The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes. ()
• A SONG. ()
• A SONG. ()
• A SONG. ()
• A SONG. ()
• The SPLEEN. A Pindarick Poem. ()
• A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet. Written about the Year 1709. ()
• [Tasso, Aminta:] AMINTOR, being ask'd by THIRSIS Who is the Object of his Love? speaks as follows. ()
• [Tasso, Aminta:] Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. ()
• [Tasso, Aminta:] From the AMINTA of TASSO. ()
• [Tasso, Aminta:] From the AMINTA of TASSO. Part of the Description of the Golden Age. ()
• [Tasso, Aminta:] THIRSIS persuades AMINTOR not to despair upon the Predictions of Mopsus discov'ring him to be an Impostor. ()
• There's No To-Morrow, A FABLE imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange. ()
• To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters. ()
• To DEATH. ()
• To Mr. F. now Earl of W. Who going abroad, had desired ARDELIA to write some Verses upon whatever Subject she thought fit, against his Return in the Evening. ()
• To the NIGHTINGALE. ()
• To the Painter of an ill-drawn Picture of CLEONE, the Honorable Mrs. Thynne. ()
• The Tradesman and the Scholar. ()
• The TREE. ()
• VERSES Written under the King of Sweden's Picture. ()
• The Wit and the Beau. ()
• The Young RAT and his DAM, the COCK and the CAT. ()